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Zodiac Maritime places newly acquired Wah Kwong VLCC into Heidmar pool

Photo of Grant Rowles Grant RowlesAugust 24, 2017
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Heidmar’s Seawolf Tankers VLCC pool has benefited from the return of Eyal Ofer’s Zodiac Maritime as a Heidmar pool partner.

Zodiac Maritime is placing newly acquired 2011-built VLCC Blue Nova into the Seawolf pool, having exited the Star Tankers pool in 2003.

Splash had reported in May that Zodiac had acquired the vessel from Hong Kong’s Wah Kwong for around $53m, marking a return to the VLCC segment for the company after more than ten years.

The latest addition grows the Seawolf Tankers pool to nine VLCCs, with an average age of nine years.

Separately, sources tell Splash that ex-Pioneer Marine CEO Pankaj Khjanna has taken up a position on the Heidmar board.

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Photo of Grant Rowles Grant RowlesAugust 24, 2017
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Grant Rowles

Grant spent nine years at Informa Group based in London, Sydney, Hong Kong and Singapore. He gained strong management experience in publishing, conferences and awards schemes in the shipping and legal areas, working on a number of titles including Lloyd's List. In 2009 Grant joined Seatrade responsible for the commercial development of Seatrade’s Asia products. In 2012, with Sam Chambers, he co-founded Asia Shipping Media.
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